Recent Posts: CraigM350

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: “But who’s going to listen to some guy in his basement with a coil of copper wire on his roof?” We’ve covered this before, and now here’s the backstory and timeline from NASA Goddard, it’s fun reading. A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission Recovery The Imager for…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Monitoring Twitter, a number of people are reporting some download sites aren’t working. So, since WUWT has been setup to handle such things (Climategate for example) here is the memo in full. Some might say “Why is WUWT getting into the polictical mess that has nothing to do…

Originally posted on WeatherAction News: Scientists will go to any extreme to get that grant! Not content with the seemingly endless effluent of fear and fakery spewed out of their various orifices, the media have have yet more fear and fakery to spread courtesy of their erstwhile academic colleagues; What I found rather surprising was…

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Getting any response from 13 billion miles away is quite a feat. But what will the aliens make of Chuck Berry? Engineers experience “joy and incredulity” as a successful test extends the life of the farthest human-made object from Earth, reports Sky News. NASA has been able to extend…

Time Magazine Goes Both Ways On The Polar Vortex

In 1974, Time Magazine blamed the cold polar vortex on global cooling.

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansionof the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.

Forty years later, Time Magazine blames the cold polar vortex on global warming

But not only does the cold spell not disprove climate change, it may well be that global warming could be making the occasional bout of extreme cold weather in the U.S. even more likely. Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles. Usually the fast winds in…